David Beech
@davidbeech.bsky.social
Yorkshire based. Interested in politics. Labour member but not a cultist.
Of course the hard left are outraged thst labour are taking 450k children out of poverty....because it didn't happen last year. By that logic if you hadn't taken us to our worst defeat since the 30s we could have done it in 2019. Honestly, just f*ck off.
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Of course the hard left are outraged thst labour are taking 450k children out of poverty....because it didn't happen last year. By that logic if you hadn't taken us to our worst defeat since the 30s we could have done it in 2019. Honestly, just f*ck off.
Reposted by David Beech
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
My god cat's really do fuck with you, don't they? Mine is refusing to eat her food in a bowl on the floor it must be placed on the kitchen work surface by the window. So obviously that's what I'm doing 🙄
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My god cat's really do fuck with you, don't they? Mine is refusing to eat her food in a bowl on the floor it must be placed on the kitchen work surface by the window. So obviously that's what I'm doing 🙄
I'm sorry but this really did make me laugh. I do love a good overreaction on here, I have to say.
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I'm sorry but this really did make me laugh. I do love a good overreaction on here, I have to say.
Reposted by David Beech
Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
As I understand it the only concession is on claiming unfair dismissal on day one? If so that was always mad. A month into a job and you can claim? Anyone who's ever employed people in business knows that's a disaster waiting to happen.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
As I understand it the only concession is on claiming unfair dismissal on day one? If so that was always mad. A month into a job and you can claim? Anyone who's ever employed people in business knows that's a disaster waiting to happen.
The TUC seem reasonably ok with this and I have to say, if I'm honest, it was a bit silly to be able to claim unfair dismissal after say 6 weeks in a job.
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The TUC seem reasonably ok with this and I have to say, if I'm honest, it was a bit silly to be able to claim unfair dismissal after say 6 weeks in a job.
Take credit for everything even if it's not yours to take, fgs. Like the 2 child cap get some nice photogenic families, working, doing their bit, talking about what life was like under the tories & how the Budget will change it for the better. Same with min wage increase. Sell this stuff every day.
An actual fear of saying anything vaguely sensible on numbers, really. Odd because it's a huge drop - if it's what you want get out there and take the credit?
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Take credit for everything even if it's not yours to take, fgs. Like the 2 child cap get some nice photogenic families, working, doing their bit, talking about what life was like under the tories & how the Budget will change it for the better. Same with min wage increase. Sell this stuff every day.
An actual fear of saying anything vaguely sensible on numbers, really. Odd because it's a huge drop - if it's what you want get out there and take the credit?
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
An actual fear of saying anything vaguely sensible on numbers, really. Odd because it's a huge drop - if it's what you want get out there and take the credit?
Reposted by David Beech
"Business wanted stability. Reeves has the same plan as she had before. They should not complain."
My very short take on the Budget and Growth has been published. It is obviously the only correct one, so I recommend you read it all the way through
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/live-blog/au...
My very short take on the Budget and Growth has been published. It is obviously the only correct one, so I recommend you read it all the way through
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/live-blog/au...
LIVE BLOG | Autumn budget 2025: Rachel Reeves announces tax and spend measures | Institute for Government
IfG experts analyse Reeves' budget and explore what the chancellor's plans for the economy, tax and spending mean.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Business wanted stability. Reeves has the same plan as she had before. They should not complain."
My very short take on the Budget and Growth has been published. It is obviously the only correct one, so I recommend you read it all the way through
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/live-blog/au...
My very short take on the Budget and Growth has been published. It is obviously the only correct one, so I recommend you read it all the way through
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/live-blog/au...
Reposted by David Beech
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Tell you what's a disgrace, Chris, that you work for a channel that platforms out and out racists such as Lucy White who has called for all Muslims to deported. Glad Reeves snubbed you. Long may it continue.
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Tell you what's a disgrace, Chris, that you work for a channel that platforms out and out racists such as Lucy White who has called for all Muslims to deported. Glad Reeves snubbed you. Long may it continue.
Reposted by David Beech
New post out:
"Survival - for now"
The five big risks hidden in the budget. And why the government has missed an opportunity to take control of its own destiny.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
"Survival - for now"
The five big risks hidden in the budget. And why the government has missed an opportunity to take control of its own destiny.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
Survival - for now
Five big risks hidden in the budget
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
New post out:
"Survival - for now"
The five big risks hidden in the budget. And why the government has missed an opportunity to take control of its own destiny.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
"Survival - for now"
The five big risks hidden in the budget. And why the government has missed an opportunity to take control of its own destiny.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
Reposted by David Beech
This Government has hugely increased public spending, which will have large in-kind benefits for households.
Families across the income distribution will benefit, but poorer households will benefit more as they use public services more, and these represent a larger proportion of their income.
Families across the income distribution will benefit, but poorer households will benefit more as they use public services more, and these represent a larger proportion of their income.
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This Government has hugely increased public spending, which will have large in-kind benefits for households.
Families across the income distribution will benefit, but poorer households will benefit more as they use public services more, and these represent a larger proportion of their income.
Families across the income distribution will benefit, but poorer households will benefit more as they use public services more, and these represent a larger proportion of their income.
I mean yeah ok keep asking him if he's a liar and he'll keep saying no I've taken difficult decisions and then Beth does her bit to camera and the public have learned absolutely nothing from it. Then don't again tomorrow. And again. Maybe this stuff is just not good for anyone?
Starmer insists Labour 'kept to our manifesto' despite record-breaking tax rises
Starmer insists Labour 'kept to our manifesto' despite record-breaking tax rises
Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Labour "kept to our manifesto" promises despite raising taxes in the budget - as he asked "everybody to contribute".
news.sky.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I mean yeah ok keep asking him if he's a liar and he'll keep saying no I've taken difficult decisions and then Beth does her bit to camera and the public have learned absolutely nothing from it. Then don't again tomorrow. And again. Maybe this stuff is just not good for anyone?
Reposted by David Beech
Just occured to me that following the budget the government has now done five of the ten "quick wins" I suggested for their their first few months. Took them a little longer...
(Two child limit; processing asylum seekers; indexing tuition fees; increasing depts delegated authority; ethics rules)
(Two child limit; processing asylum seekers; indexing tuition fees; increasing depts delegated authority; ethics rules)
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Just occured to me that following the budget the government has now done five of the ten "quick wins" I suggested for their their first few months. Took them a little longer...
(Two child limit; processing asylum seekers; indexing tuition fees; increasing depts delegated authority; ethics rules)
(Two child limit; processing asylum seekers; indexing tuition fees; increasing depts delegated authority; ethics rules)
Reposted by David Beech
every right-wing newspaper this morning:
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
every right-wing newspaper this morning:
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
Reposted by David Beech
No Labour Prime Minister has ever been acceptable to the left while in office. That includes Attlee.
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
No Labour Prime Minister has ever been acceptable to the left while in office. That includes Attlee.
Reposted by David Beech
I also think that part of this is the weird disappearance of economics from our national debate.
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I also think that part of this is the weird disappearance of economics from our national debate.
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
What is amusing to me is all those on the right gunning for Labour on higher spending this morning clearly did not take a moment to read the Conservative's manifesto in the 2019 election. Which they supported.
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
What is amusing to me is all those on the right gunning for Labour on higher spending this morning clearly did not take a moment to read the Conservative's manifesto in the 2019 election. Which they supported.
Reposted by David Beech
Britain's left-wing government is left-wing www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing
An obvious fact. But still an overlooked one
www.economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Britain's left-wing government is left-wing www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Reposted by David Beech
Maybe it’s time to conclude that the people who were wrong about Brexit, Truss, Trump, a summer UK civil war and an autumn UK debt default are just wrong about everything. What are the chances?
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Maybe it’s time to conclude that the people who were wrong about Brexit, Truss, Trump, a summer UK civil war and an autumn UK debt default are just wrong about everything. What are the chances?
Reposted by David Beech
Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
Nick Robinson repeating the line- again- that everyone on benefits doesn't work. No, Nick, many of them go out and do jobs you wouldn't touch with a f**king barge poll, mate
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Nick Robinson repeating the line- again- that everyone on benefits doesn't work. No, Nick, many of them go out and do jobs you wouldn't touch with a f**king barge poll, mate
Henry Zeffman on the BBC 'this is a Labour government embracing the fact it is a higher taxing higher spending government....they are unapologetic'. *Yes* this is what I want to see. Go out and make the bloody case.
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Henry Zeffman on the BBC 'this is a Labour government embracing the fact it is a higher taxing higher spending government....they are unapologetic'. *Yes* this is what I want to see. Go out and make the bloody case.